ok, this one is really hard

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

3 452 526 613 163 807 108 170 062 053 440 751 665 152

solve for the next 3 numbers.

im not 100% sure the solution is unique.

hint:
<font color="white"> the rest of the numbers are 3 digits long </font>

super hint:
<font color="white"> there are only 3 more numbers and no numbers previous to the start of the puzzle </font>

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

noone will ever get this /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[mslif]

I have spent about an hour on this. I give up

[PairTheBoard]

These are the ages of the 7th through the 26th patriarchs prior to the Great Flood.

PairTheBoard

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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I have spent about an hour on this. I give up

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it might be nearly immpossible for a human to solve.

[mslif]

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I have spent about an hour on this. I give up

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it might be nearly immpossible for a human to solve.

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Thanks, that makes me feel a little better.
Jason will probably solve this in less than 5 minutes though!

[Quaalude]

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3 452 526 613 163 807 108 170 062 053 440 751 665 152

solve for the next 3 numbers.

im not 100% sure the solution is unique.

hint:
<font color="white"> the rest of the numbers are 3 digits long </font>

super hint:
<font color="white"> there are only 3 more numbers and no numbers previous to the start of the puzzle </font>

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<font color="white">
Well, unless this is really something else, this looks like a mistyped 41! (41 factorial), which is:

33 452 526 613 163 807 108 170 062 053 440 751 665 152 000 000 000

So, either you misstyped it and the answer is "000," or I haven't got a clue.

-Travas </font>

[jason_t]

I figured this out while driving to my office at school to study for the evening. I wrote it down on a napkin as I was leaving the house and the disaster that is Los Angeles traffic afforded me the time in the car to solve it.

There is an error in your puzzle. Preceed the first number by 3. With that adjustment we have

answer: <font color="white">000 000 000</font>.

The key was the block of numbers

062

and

053

in the sequence. These made me recognize what was going on with the whole sequence. It is, in fact, not meant to be viewed as a sequence but as one integer.

[PairTheBoard]

Damn. I was just about convinced it was the number of sexual positions in the Kama Sutra.

PairTheBoard

[mslif]

Didn't know I could get a good laugh in the math forum /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[chiachu]

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I figured this out while driving to my office at school to study for the evening. I wrote it down on a napkin as I was leaving the house and the disaster that is Los Angeles traffic afforded me the time in the car to solve it.

There is an error in your puzzle. Preceed the first number by 3. With that adjustment we have

answer: <font color="white">000 000 000</font>.

The key was the block of numbers

062

and

053

in the sequence. These made me recognize what was going on with the whole sequence. It is, in fact, not meant to be viewed as a sequence but as one integer.

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stuff written below:
<font color="white">
any chance you could explain why those block of numbers would make you think of factorials? i am baffled /images/graemlins/confused.gif </font>

[jason_t]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I figured this out while driving to my office at school to study for the evening. I wrote it down on a napkin as I was leaving the house and the disaster that is Los Angeles traffic afforded me the time in the car to solve it.

There is an error in your puzzle. Preceed the first number by 3. With that adjustment we have

answer: <font color="white">000 000 000</font>.

The key was the block of numbers

062

and

053

in the sequence. These made me recognize what was going on with the whole sequence. It is, in fact, not meant to be viewed as a sequence but as one integer.

[/ QUOTE ]


any chance you could explain why those block of numbers would make you think of factorials? i am baffled /images/graemlins/confused.gif

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They didn't make me think of factorials. They made me recognize the whole sequence should be viewed as an one integer and must be contained in some other famous sequence. So then I tried to think of famous sequences of integers of which this one might be contained in. Factorials is one such sequence.

[chiachu]

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I figured this out while driving to my office at school to study for the evening. I wrote it down on a napkin as I was leaving the house and the disaster that is Los Angeles traffic afforded me the time in the car to solve it.

There is an error in your puzzle. Preceed the first number by 3. With that adjustment we have

answer: <font color="white">000 000 000</font>.

The key was the block of numbers

062

and

053

in the sequence. These made me recognize what was going on with the whole sequence. It is, in fact, not meant to be viewed as a sequence but as one integer.

[/ QUOTE ]


any chance you could explain why those block of numbers would make you think of factorials? i am baffled /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

They didn't make me think of factorials. They made me recognize the whole sequence should be viewed as an one integer and must be contained in some other famous sequence. So then I tried to think of famous sequences of integers of which this one might be contained in. Factorials is one such sequence.

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because they start with a 0?

[jason_t]

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because they start with a 0?

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Yes.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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There is an error in your puzzle. Preceed the first number by 3. With that adjustment we have

answer: <font color="white">000 000 000</font>.



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you are correct. and i did mistype it. im amazed you still got it. the full number is 33,452,526,613,163,807,108,170,062,053,440,751,665 ,152,000,000,000

[Subfallen]

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because they start with a 0?

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Yes.

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Now I know why everyone calls you a nit. It's because they're [censored] jealous of your superior intellect. Stay strong jason. jason, stay strong.

[ChromePony]

Yeah the spacing seem to indicate that it was one long number, but seriously how did you recognize it as 41!...in your car on the way to work. Please tell me you at least tried a few other possibilities on a calulator first and arent one of those people that can calculate this stuff in their head.

[asofel]

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Yeah the spacing seem to indicate that it was one long number, but seriously how did you recognize it as 41!...in your car on the way to work. Please tell me you at least tried a few other possibilities on a calulator first and arent one of those people that can calculate this stuff in their head.

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my guess is that he recognized that it was a factorial, tried a few numbers to narrow down the range, and settled upon 41 after a few tries. No way he calculated this in his head.

Scary thing is there are people that can do [censored] like that...although this factorial itself might be too hard...

[asofel]

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noone will ever get this /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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if only i knew how to work "jason_t" into "pwned"

[ChromePony]

So the question then is, does jason have a calculator mounted on his dashboard or something? Somehow this wouldnt totally surprise me.

[jakethebake]

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So the question then is, does jason have a calculator mounted on his dashboard or something? Somehow this wouldnt totally surprise me.

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I'm pretty sure he doesn't need one.

[Quaalude]

I guess no one noticed that I posted the correct answer first. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

sigh

Ah well. I guess I'll go cry now. hah

-Travas

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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I guess no one noticed that I posted the correct answer first. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

sigh

Ah well. I guess I'll go cry now. hah

-Travas

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yes, how did you get it?

seems impossible to me.

[kyro]

OK, I made one up. This should take all of 5 minutes to figure out. Whatever...

Find the next 3 numbers in the sequence.

2, 12, 45, 112, 265, ?, ?, ?

[Cyrus]

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--Super hint: There are ... no numbers previous to the start of the puzzle.

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--There is an error in your puzzle. Precede the first number by 3

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--You are correct. I did mistype it.

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